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- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Notes on Virginia
- The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
- Theodore Rubin
- So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
- Roger Baldwin, founder ACLU
- Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), 1822-1895
- Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
- Georges Pomidou
- The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott (1926 - ), Economist
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